Thursday, February 9, 2012

WABC Eyewitness News reporter Lisa Colagrossi has a report this morning on the probably doomed East Village Farms on Avenue A ... as well as a wider look at the ongoing demolition of so many buildings around here... we exchanged emails with her leading up to the report, and we thank her for including EV Grieve in the broadcast.

The piece is online ... and will be rebroadcast during the 4 p.m. newscast...

Why move into that neighborhood if you deem that building an eyesore. That building gave the neighborhood character, which you don't and will never have. You should've just stayed in bland Connecticut or the Midwest, where everything is, clean, white, and boring.

OH OH, this could be a sadly momentous occasion.....the day we will ALL remember as the beginning of EVGrieve becoming EVGCOMMCORP...charging for access to the site...NEVER coming out of his 5th Ave. three story condo (WITH slide)....("oh, yeah,left the Village a LONG time ago")....and sues ANYONE trying to take a picture of his Million Dollah JagPorscheBenz. Sad day......sad day.

Some words to consider from the incomparable Will Eisner. Preaching to the choir, no doubt, but he says it so elegantly that I thought it is worth sharing.

"As I grew older and accumulated more memories, I came to feel more keenly about the disappearances of people and landmarks. Especially troubling to me was the callous removal of buildings. I felt that, somehow, they had a kind of soul.

I know now that these structures, barnacled with laughter and stained by tears, are more than lifeless edifices. It cannot be that having been part of life, they did not somehow absorb the radiation from human interaction.

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